Disaster Preparedness

Being outdoors during an earthquake can be safer than being indoors—if you act correctly. The greatest dangers outside c...

Children are more vulnerable during earthquakes due to their size, mobility, and emotional response to sudden danger. Cl...

Nuclear emergencies—whether caused by earthquakes, accidents, or facility failures—create dangers that are not immediate...

Disasters do not impact all regions equally. Urban and rural communities face different challenges in evacuation, rescue...

Operation Tomodachi was a large-scale humanitarian mission conducted by U.S. forces to support Japan after the Great Eas...

The Noto Peninsula Earthquake struck Japan with powerful shaking, destroying homes, cutting off lifelines, and isolating...

On March 11, 2011, Japan experienced one of the most powerful disasters in modern history—a magnitude 9.0 earthquake fol...

Shelter-in-place orders are issued during chemical spills, severe storms, wildfires, civil emergencies, and situations w...

Power outages can occur during storms, earthquakes, wildfires, and extreme heat. Without electricity, lighting, heating,...

During disasters, phone networks overload, power outages occur, and families can easily become separated. An Emergency C...